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To: Dead Corpse
Funny how much prostitution went on back then and how many Founders were rumored to have partaken.

Can you prove that? It is known that Franklin was a libertine. You believe that Washington was? Adams? Did they hold proud prostitutes parades?

There were perversion laws in all states, that had always been there, until the 70's. Prostitution is still illegal. You want to strike down centuries of law and claim it's Constitutional when clearly it is not.

Again, we have strayed away from morality a long time ago. When men will not or cannot control themselves, the law will. And until the 1970's, the law did since the 1700's.

129 posted on 10/06/2010 7:01:35 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
You believe that Washington was? Adams?

No. They were pretty much prudes.

But Jefferson? Franklin?

You cannot force people to be moral at the point of a gun. It doesn't work. It never has and it never will.

Let people suffer the folly of their ways. Nothing good comes of such behaviors, but you don't have a Right (God given or otherwise) to stick a gun in their face to force them to your ideals.

“We must take human nature as we find it. Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.” - George Washington - to John Lay – August 1, 1786

132 posted on 10/06/2010 8:02:11 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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